Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the seventeenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stands like a phallic exhortation to the newly-weds living around it , but was a hive of industry once , dating possibly from the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | Members of the Wedgwood family had been master potters here since the seventeenth century , and Burslem has been called the ‘ Mother of the Potteries ’ . |
| 3 | In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest . |
| 4 | The population of Europe , including Russia , had grown steadily since the seventeenth century , and continued to do so after 1880 . |
| 5 | The town itself is in most respects unremarkable by comparison with its Devon neighbours , and like many of them flourished especially in the seventeenth century , heyday of the West Country cloth trade : when Celia Fiennes passed close by in 1698 , she found all Exeter and the country around making ‘ an incredible quantity of serges ’ which were sent from the port of Topsham to be sold in Europe . |
| 6 | It is the totality of these new enclosures , beginning perhaps in the seventeenth century and increasing rapidly through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that , together with the industrial and urban development discussed in the following chapters . |
| 7 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 8 | The voice of reaction was heard well into the seventeenth century . |
| 9 | No records remain as to who lived here through the seventeenth century , when during the Civil War a bloody battle took place on the Manor 's doorstep . |
| 10 | Out of his manors , William chose to reside at Hammoon , and his descendants certainly lived here until the seventeenth century . |
| 11 | They have stood here since the seventeenth century , and were originally in front of the Council House which was known as the Tolzey . |
| 12 | In this sense things have not changed much since the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | The Ulster Protestant Unionists , the descendants of the English and Scottish settlers who had been planted there in the seventeenth century , reacted with fury and dismay to the news . |